Elated to hear @jimweirich's is going to be archived in the Wayback Machine soon: https://t.co/aidltjO7Ah

“Have I mentioned today how much git rocks?” — One of my office mates I hear that spontaneous outpouring of appreciation for git about once a day. Usually it is someone in the office who just finished a task that would have been difficult with any of the source control systems we had used previously. Git has really impacted our day to day development process, and that’s the sign of a powerful tool. It wasn’t always like this. I remember when EdgeCase made a rather abrupt switchover from subversion to git. I had only been dabbling with git at the time, but the guys in charge of our code repositories said “Here, this is good stuff. We’re switching … Now.” Let me tell you, it was a little rough for a few days. Eventually we figured it out. Although we love the tool now, the learning curve was a bit steep to climb. About two months ago we were talking in the office about git a...